CHALATI CHAKKI DEKH KAR, DIYA KABIRA ROY, DUI PAATAN KE BEECH MEIN, SABUT BACHA NA KOYE

Samsara means physicality and physicality always exists in duality. Duality (dwait) means many and many can happen or exist in opposites only. This samsara too happens and exists in duality or opposites such as day n night; death n birth; pain n pleasure; male n female etc. Physicality can exist and flourish only in a world of opposites. In oneness (adwait) there is no duality, there are no opposites and hence no physicality.    

However, the important thing which we need to understand is that this wheel of samsara is happening on a Center which is always fixed. The wheel of a ghatti or a quern too moves on an unmoving support in the Center similar to the wheels of a bullock cart which move on a fixed or unmoving hub. Without that fixed Center, without that unmoving hub; without that fixed support the wheel cannot move. This Center is not only the source of all movements on the periphery which we see around us but this movement on the periphery also survives and thrives in the presence of that Center only. Thus, this movement on periphery is not possible in the absence of that Center. 

This movement, this wheel of samsara, thus, is to indicate that if there is a movement then there must be a Center or unmoving hub too because without Center, the periphery cannot exist, though, Center can always exist without periphery or the movement. The movement is there so that you can go in search of the Center. Body and mind are the periphery and living on the levels of body and mind only is to live on the periphery. Your Center is within. Because you are too lost in this movement you never paid attention and hence never became aware of that unmoving hub or the stillness within. If you get lost in this movement then you will be tossed around; you will suffer and get crushed in this movement (samsara) or dui pattan of duality like grains get crushed in a ghatti. 

The only difference between an enlightened being and that of an ordinary person is that an enlightened being has found his Center which an ordinary person has not. He is always established in his Center which is also the Center of the existence. He is blissed out all the time and is always in harmony; in tune with the existence. Though he also lives in the body-mind which is the periphery but he is always connected with his Center which is unmoving and is transcendental. He always lives in and acts out of this unmoving Center. That’s why he does all that is needed on the outside and yet remains unruffled within and untouched by the movement around him. 

Why we live in misery? Though the same stillness is our Center as well but we still live in misery. Why? Because we are not yet aware of our Center. We have not yet tested the stillness or divine within us which an enlightened one has. We always live on the periphery i.e. we live in and live for body and mind only. Whatever we do in the world is for our body and mind only because everything else in this world is just an extension of this body only. The physical has become too real for us and hence we are caught up with the movement on the periphery. This is living in complete identification with the body-mind which is living in ego. Living in ego or living in body-consciousness is living with imaginary identity because ego is non-existent. We are miserable all the time because all our doings are for that which actually does not exist; that which is not our reality. 

What’s the way out? The Center within is our reality. Hence instead of getting lost in this movement we should make efforts to find that Center. Outside is movement, stillness is within. Turning inward is to become aware of your Center; your stillness, the unmoving dimension which is always as it is and is never disturbed or affected by what happens within and around. Because all the time you are too much preoccupied in your mind, you never come to experience that Center or stillness. If you sit silently for a while, you will become aware of that unmoving Center.

Hence, shift your focus from outward or others (bahirmukha or par ka chintan) to inward or Self (antarmukha or swa ka chintan). Do not get caught up with the things and activities on the periphery i.e. with body and mind and its activities and instead use them as stepping stones to move within. Always, remain identified with and connected to your Center. That’s what meditation is all about – to become aware of your Center or stillness within. Connecting to your Center or Self is svabhava and remaining focused on outside or others is vibhava.

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